Eyewitness News

(New York - WABC, March 12, 2007) - Do you find yourself dragging during the day, and that a little shut eye would pull you through?

Eyewitness News reporter Lauren Glassberg has just the place.

Victoria Ross hasn't gotten a whole lot of sleep lately.

"I've been traveling, so I've had a cumulative of about 12 hours in the last five days," she said. "So I'm pretty tired."

She's hoping a place called Yelo will help her catch up.

Inside the sleek and serene Midtown space are seven private chambers, designed to induce sleep.

"I was very exhausted most of the time," Nicolas Ronco said.

Ronco's own exhaustion inspired him to create these napping nooks to help revive the tired masses.

Lauren: You nap here and it will benefit your whole existence.
Ronco: Absolutely. And that's something that was really important to me from the get-go, which is really to help people, particularly in a city like New York, where the main thing that we're lacking is space and time, and giving back people's space and time," he said.

Victoria settled into her chair with a cashmere blanket. She begins with a little reflexology, which costs more than just a nap, but can help get you to that twilight state.

Thirty minutes later, the lights are turned down. Music is an option. There are 5,000 playlists and channels to choose from, but there are some restrictions.

"The only thing you cannot listen to is hip hop and hard rock, because we don't think it's relaxing," Ronco said.

Naps run 20 minutes for $12 or 40 minutes for $24 dollars. And when your time is up, an LED light will begin to brighten, as though you're waking up with the sun. Sound too good to be true? Just ask Victoria.

"I was skeptical about the power nap," she said. "Whether or not I'd fall asleep, and I did. I was out cold."

And now she's ready to seize the day, again.

Labels: nap, power nap, powernap

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